On 01/12/2017, 09:32 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
Yes, I still prefer 4.4 -- I am aware we can lose users because of too old kernel.
IMHO that's partly a communication/marketing issue. Most people will read v4.4 and _think_ their new HW is unsopported just because they don't know there are backports.
Not really -- I base on my own experience making linux work on machines of my wife, father, sister and friends. SLE kernel almost never worked on those because the laptops were new (no high-end machines, standard cheap notebooks, only new). Tumbleweed kernels mostly work on them. And over time (with new kernels), even touchpads and wifi upstream drivers start working. Not with SLE kernels.
Despite of all that, I still prefer the SLE kernel. If people are able to make linux working on new machines, they are enough experienced to zypper ar Kernel:stable. Leap + K:stable usually cures most of the issues of new notebooks for me.
No, most likely what will happen is that they will install Ubuntu or Mint. I am able to do it but for my parents' laptops I don't want to go the way of unsupported system configurations and prefer automatic updates which minimize my maintenance. -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org